Peaches Geldof ‘did not want to die like her mother’

It is ‘likely’ heroin played a role in Peaches Geldof death (Picture: PA)

Peaches Geldof was determined not to follow in the footsteps of her late mum Paula Yates, a friend has revealed.

‘Peaches did not want to die like her mother, Paula Yates. She did not want to be a heroin addict. I know this because she told me,’ Louise Gannon wrote in The Sun.

Sadly, 25-year-old Peaches, who was mum to Astala, two, and one-year-old Phaedra, was found dead at her home last month following a suspected heroin overdose. Paula died in similar circumstances when Peaches was just four.

Louise goes on to say that Peaches’ memory of her mother had steered her on the straight and narrow in the months before her death.

‘I have experimented with bad drugs but I’ve never had a good time with them,’ Peaches told Louise. ‘And in the end it was my mother that stopped me because I’d lived through that chaos.’

She continued: ‘I’d seen what had happened to her and it has to be a warning for me never to get too crazy.

‘I believe I’m going to get a happy ending now. I’ve never thought that before but I think everything’s going to be all right.’

Peaches once said her mother’s fate kept her clean (Picture: Peaches Geldof/Twitter)

But Peaches’ friends were aware she had slipped back in to her old habits.

A friend admitted: ‘People knew that Peaches was using heroin again. She was very secretive about it all but it wasn’t hard to work out.

‘Every weekend her in-laws would have her boys and she would have time out from being a mum. But she started to flip back into her old ways. She would go from being with it and completely lovely to all over the place and like a zombie.

‘She had everything she wanted — a man who loved her and two gorgeous boys. But it was like she was drawn back like a magnet to drugs.